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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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I, REGULATIONS, 



May 27, 188 1 



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Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, 
80 Beekman Street, New York. 



REGULATIONS. 



FREE TUITION. 



Candidates for free tuition must fulfill the following conditions : 

1. At the time of his entrance examination, the applicant must inform 
the examiners that he desires to be admitted to free tuition, in order that 
they may make special report as to the merits of his performance. 

2. He must present a certificate from some person of good repute, stat- 
ing that the writer is acquainted with the circumstances of the applicant 
(his parent or guardian, if he has such), and knows him to be unable to 
bear the expense of his education if obliged to pay the tuition fee ; 
also, that he (the writer) is not himself a relative of the applicant. 

3. He must exhibit a proficiency in every subject of examination ex- 
pressed by the number 60 of a scale in which 100 is the maximum. 

i. He must maintain, subsequent to his admission, a standing in 
scholarship, also in every branch, expressed by the number 70 of a similar 
scale, failing which he will forfeit his privilege. 

A candidate for admission upon any one of the statutory free scholar- 
ships must fulfill conditions 3 and 4, as above. 



ENTRANCE CONDITIONS. 

1. Students admitted conditionally must satisfy all conditions within 
two months of the date of their admission, unless the time be extended 
by vote of the Faculty. 

2. Students who fail to satisfy their entrance conditions within the 
time specified will be dropped from the roll. 

GENERAL REGULATIONS. 

1. During the hours set apart for college exercises students must not 
linger about the grounds, the passages, or the vacant rooms. 

2. On the college premises, the throwing of missiles of any kind, ex- 
cept such as are used in games of recreation permitted by the President 
is prohibited. ' 

3. At the ringing of the bell for morning prayers every student will 



promptly repair to his seat in the chapel, and remain there until the close 
of the chapel services. 

4. Immediately after prayers the students of the several classes or 
sections will proceed directly to their respective class or section rooms, 
where they will remain until the close of the hour allotted to the ex- 
ercises. 

5. At the end of each hour, the classes and sections will be dismissed. 
Between successive hours of attendance there will be an interval of five 
minutes, at the end of which the students will promptly repair to the 
rooms where their attendance is due. 

6. The use of tobacco in any form on the college premises is not 
allowed. 

7. No student may leave a class-room during the progress of any 
scholastic exercise. 

8. Excuses for absence from college exercises will not be required 
or received. 

9. Any student who shall absent himself from any one of his regular 
exercises while he is on the college premises, or shall leave said premises 
during the hours at which his attendance is due, shall be liable to removal 
from the roll of his class. 

10. Any student whose absences, during any session, in any depart- 
ment, shall exceed one-fourth of the total number of exercises in that 
department for the same session, will be debarred from the ensuing semi- 
annual examination in that department, and will cease to be a candidate 
for a degree. 

11. Any sudent who, by reason of absences, shall be liable to be 
debarred from more than two departments during the same session, shall 
ipso facto cease to be a member of the college. 

12. In case a student is absent for more than one-fourth of the time 
on account of illness or other cause beyond his control, he may be relieved 
of the operation of the foregoing provisions by act of the Faculty. Every 
such case must be considered on its own merits. 

13. Every student absent from any monthly examination shall be 
marked zero therefor— unless his absence was occasioned by illness or 
other unavoidable cause properly attested to the Faculty, in which 
case he shall be held to examination within the month following his 
return. 

14. Any student who shall be found deficient in the same department 
in more than one monthly record, may be required to study with a private 
tutor the subjects in which he is deficient, and to pass a rigorous exami- 
nation on the same, at a time to be appointed by the Faculty, or he 
shall no longer be permitted to be a candidate for a degree. 

15. No student who has been deficient in any English composition, 
during either session of the year, shall be admitted to examination in the 



English department till such deficiency is made good, unless he may have 
been excused from such performance by vote of the Faculty. 

16. Every student absent from either of the semi-annual examinations 
shall be marked zero therefor — unless his absence was occasioned by 
illness or other unavoidable cause properly attested to the Faculty, 
in which case he shall be held to examination within the week next pre- 
ceding the opening of the first session in October, unless the time be 
extended by vote of the Faculty. 

17. At the opening of the college in October, no student, who shall 
have failed to make good all term deficiencies of the preceding year, 
shall be allowed to proceed with his class except by special vote of the 
Faculty. 

18. A delinquent student, examined in any subject and reported 
" passed," shall receive a minimum mark in that subject. 

19. No student shall be a member of any professional school during his 
academic course. 



CHAPEL REGULATIONS. 

1. The bell for morning prayer will begin to ring at 9^4 o'clock, and 
will ring for two minutes, during which time the students will repair 
to their seats in the chapel. The chapel door will then be closed, and will 
not be opened again until after the reading of the lesson. The door will 
then be opened for the admission of such as may be tardy, and will then 
again be closed, and will remain closed until the end of the services. 
After the services the Freshman Class, with the ofiicers who instruct 
them, will first leave the chapel; the other classes, with their instructors, 
will follow in order, as they may be dismissed by the President. 

2. The several classes will be separately seated in the chapel, and will 
preserve throughout the year the seats assigned them. 

3. Conversation in the chapel is prohibited. 

4. During prayer and singing, students will rise and remain standing 
in their places without turning round. 

5. An officer of the roll will be appointed by the President from among 
the students in each class, whose duty it shall be to keep the record of at- 
tendance. Every such officer will have a seat from which he may observe 
the members of his class, and will make his record silently. He will de- 
liver his report to the President before leaving the chapel. 

6. No student may carry into the chapel books, papers, canes, 
umbrellas, or other articles unsuited to the place. 

7. Should a student arrive on the college grounds after the beginning 
of the exercises, but in time to enter after the reading of the lesson, he 
will attend at that time. Should he arrive after the second closing of the 



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door, and before the close of the services, he will repair to the cloak-room, 
and remain there until the services are over. 

8. If any student shall absent himself from more than one-fourth of 
the required chapel exercises during one term, he shall cease to be a can- 
didate for a degree. 

RULES OF EXAMINATION. 

1. Students shall be seated as directed by the examining officer.' 

2. No book or paper shall be brought to the examination room. 

3. No student shall hold any communication with another while under 
examination. 

When the examination is conducted in writing: 

4. Each student must write his papers in a fair and legible hand, and 
sign his name thereto. 

5. The exercises shall be written on papers prepared for the purpose, 
which shall not be detached from each other by the student. 

6. No student shall leave the room till the completion of his exercise. 

7. Any student who shall fail to attend pw?zc^waZZ2/ at the hour ap- 
pointed for examination in any department, at either of the regular 
semi-annual examinations, without satisfactory reason therefor, shall not 
be entitled to an examination, but shall be marked zero. 

8. Each student is permitted to retire when he has completed his 
paper. Before leaving the room he must make such disposition of his 
paper as the presiding officer may direct. 

9. Writing may continue for three hours, and no longer. 

ELECTIVE STUDIES. 

1. Members of the Freshman Class must choose one of the following 
modern languages, instruction in each of which is given two hours per 
week throughout the year, viz. : German, French, Italian, Spanish. 

2. Members of the Sophomore Class must choose one of the following 
languages, instruction in each of which is given one hour per week 
throughout the year, viz. : Anglo-Saxon, German, French, . Italian, 
Spanish. 

3. The required studies of the Junior Class are History, Political Eco- 
nomy, and the English Language and Literature. All other subjects of 
study are elective, subject to the provision that the studies selected by a 
student shall suffice, with the obligatory studies to occupy at least fif- 
teen hours per week. 

4. The required studies of the Senior Class are History and the Eng- 
lish Language and Literature. All other studies are elective, subject to 
the provision above noted. 



5. Students who have made their choice of elective studies to be 
pursued during the year, shall not be permitted to abandon any study so 
selected in favor of another, without the permission of the Faculty. 

MAXIMA AND DETERMINATION OF STANDING. 

1. In case a student shall elect studies which, with the obligatory 
studies, occupy more than fifteen hours per week, he shall determine, at 
the time of making such election, upon which of the elective studies, 
with the obligatory ones, his standing in scholarship shall be made. 

2. In any department the monthly maximum for each class shall be 
ten; and the minimum shall be five for the Freshman and Sophomore 
Classes and six for the Junior and Senior Classes. 

Any student shall be accounted deficient for the month in any 
department, in a monthly record of which he is assigned a mark less than 
the prescribed minimum. 

3. Each semi annual examination shall have a weight in the deter- 
mination of standing in scholarship equal to that of all the monthly 
examinations of the preceding half year. 

In any department the term (or semi-annual) maximum for each 
class shall be obtained by multiplying 160 by the number of times per 
week the class has attended in that department during the preceding 
half year ; and the minimum shall be 50 per cent of the maximum for the 
Freshman and Sophomore Classes and 60 per cent of the maximum, for 
the Junior and Senior Classes. 

Any student shall be accounted deficient for the term in any depart- 
ment in a semi-annual report from which he is assigned a mark less than 
the prescribed minimum. 

4. The sum total of all the valuations, assigned to the performances 
of each student in any department, in the semi-annual reports, shall 
be taken to express the value of the student's scholarship in said depart- 
ment. 

5. At the close of the Senior year the results contained in all the 
semi annual reports of all the four years shall be combined, by adding 
together the valuations assigned to the performances of each student 
severally in such reports. On the basis of the totals thus ascertained the 
members 'of the graduating class shall be arranged in four classes, the 
first three of which shall be designated, respectively, the First, Second, 
and Third Classes of Honor. The Classes of Honor shall be arranged as 
follows : 

First Class —those having a total mark of 95—100 per cent of the total 
maximum for the four years. 

Second Class — those having a total mark of 90 — 95 per cent, of the 
total maximum. 



Third Class — those having a total mark of 80 — 90 per cent of the 
total maximum. 

DEGREES. 

The degree of Bachelor of Letters, Bachelor of Science, or 
Bachelor of Arts will be conferred upon members of the Senior Class 
who shall have satisfactorily finished their course, according to the 
character of the studies chiefly pursued by them — the requirements being, 
for Bachelor of Letters, all the classics and none of the science of 
Junior and Senior years ; for Bachelor of Science, all the science and 
none of the classics of Junior and Senior years ; for Bachelor of Arts, 
a mixed course of classics and science in Junior and Senior years. 

PRIZES AND PRIZE-SCHOLARSHIPS. 

1. For the Prize of the Association of the Alumni "to the most 
faithful and deserving student of the graduating class," three names are 
to be selected by the Faculty and submitted to the class, who, from 
these three, are to designate one to receive the Prize. 

Should the class at any time fail to make the selection, and give 
notice thereof to the President of the College, at least ten days prior to 
the day appointed for Commencement, the Faculty may select the student 
to receive the Prize. 

2. For the Chanler Historical Prize to the member of the Senior 
Class who shall be the author of the best original manuscript essay in 
English prose on the History of Civil Government in America, or some 
other historical subject assigned b.y the Faculty, the subject will be 
announced on or before November first, and the competing essays 
must be delivered to the President on or before May first in each year. 

3. "The Society's Greek Seminary Prize of Thirty Dollars " and " The 
Society's English Seminary Prize of Twenty Dollars," founded by the 
late Professor John McVickar, through the Society for Promoting 
Religion and Learning, are open for competition to such members of the 
graduating class as shall have given their names to the President, at 
least one month prior to the time of competition as candidates for 
the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

4. The books or subjects on which examination will be held for the 
several prize-scholarships offered by the Trustees for competition to the 
members of the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Classes respectively, 
wilJL be announced on or before November first in each year. 

5. No competitor shall be entitled to a prize-scholarship, unless he 
shall receive, in the examination for the same, a mark above 90 in a scale 
of which 100 is the maximum ; nor shall he be entitled to honorable men- 
tion unless he shall receive, in the examination, a mark of 90 or more in 
a like scale. 



6. Competitors for prizes and prize-scholarsliips must be of good and 
regular standing in their respective classes, in all departments. 

7. The names of the successful competitors for the several prize- 
scholarships and prizes shall not be disclosed until publicly announced 

on Commencement Day. 

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THESES OF THE GRADUATING CLASS. 

1. Bach student of the Senior or Graduating Class shall, each year, 
on or before the first Friday of March, in the forenoon, deliver to the 
President a written thesis on any subject, scientific or literary, the said 
student, with the President's approval, may choose. 

2. As soon as practicable thereafter, the President and the Professor 
of Rhetoric shall make to the Faculty a report on the admissibility of 
said thesis ; those which they shall agree to admit shall'be admitted, and 
those which they agree to reject shall be rejected. 

3. If they shall disagree as to the merit of a thesis, the decision shall 
lie with the Faculty, who shall determine the question at their next ordi- 
nary meeting. 

4. If any thesis shall be rejected, its author shall be required to 
rewrite it, or to write another and deliver it to the President on or before 
the first day of May next ensuing, and in such case the President shall 
be the sole judge of its admissibility. 

5. The merit of each accepted thesis shall be denoted by a number, 
the maximum of which shall be 300, which shall be added to the number 
of marks otherwise attained by its author, and so count in the final esti- 
mate of his standing. 

H. Any student failing to deliver a thesis on or before the date afore- 
said shall be debarred from graduating, unless he shall be able to prove 
to the satisfaction of the President that such failure was inevitable, in 
which case the President shall extend the period of delivery at his dis- 
cretion. 

7. No thesis will be precepted which shall occupy less than eight 
minutes in reading, at the ordinary rate of effective delivery. 

8. No student whose thesis shall be so poor in merit as to be ulti- 
mately rejected shall receive a diploma except by special favor. 

9. The graduating theses are to be retained by the College. 

VALEDICTORIAN. 

A list of the members of the Graduating Class, from whom the vale- 
dictorian may be chosen, will be made by the Faculty and submitted to 
the class, who may select as valedictorian one of the number, subject to 
the approval of the Faculty. 



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